Paul Friedrich Meyerheim
Paul Friedrich Meyer Home ( born July 13, 1842 in Berlin, † September 14, 1915 ) was a German painter and printmaker. At the beginning of his career, Paul Meyer went home several times to Paris and Barbizon in order to perfect himself in landscape painting. His special talent lay in the Animals. Also known as a portraitist, he has made a name and was successful with his woodcuts and lithographs as an illustrator.
Family
Meyer 's home was the son of the painter Friedrich Eduard Meyer 's home; His elder brother was the painter Franz Meyer home. The painter Hermann and Wilhelm Meyer home were his paternal uncle.
Life
His first artistic teaching Meyer got home ( with his brother ) from his father. 1857-1860 Meyer visited home the Academy of Art in his hometown. Later he made several study trips to Switzerland, Belgium and Holland and stayed for a year in Paris. Then he returned to Berlin, where he led the 1883 Tiermalklasse at the Berlin Academy of Art. Since 1887, Professor Meyer was home at the Art Academy and later became a member of the Senate.
Paul Meyer 's home was a friend of the industrial family Borsig, which is why he also drew some special designs for the family and the company Borsig. He belonged to the group of guests from well-known artists from the Crown Prince ( later Emperor Frederick III. ) Were invited regularly.
Eight weeks after his 73rd birthday, he died. His grave ( under a stele- shaped tomb ) at the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde is still preserved.
Work
Initially Meyer home style was influenced by the meticulous depictions of his father. Later, his friend Adolph Menzel served him as a model, with whom he had a common interest in animal and Zoomotiven. The virtuoso display of exotic animals was his, although not exclusive, specialty. He wore, for example, with the murals in the lobby of the antelope house in Berlin's Zoologischer Garten help to show animals from foreign lands in their natural environment. His other hand animal hut images show the scary situation of a crowded jumble of exotic animals and gawking spectators. Can Meyer 's home in the field of landscape painting can be at this time only in paintings such as reading " The goat dealer in the village ," which he had twenty years earlier run. Portraits and images from the life of the people continued to be an integral part of his work. In the latter, the arc from simple still life spans to humor scenes with which he variously embellished fixed and dining rooms.
A sensation at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1912 there were seven huge images that Paul Meyer home had painted in the years 1873-1876 on behalf of Albert Borsig on copper. The cycle was entitled life story of a locomotive and was originally intended for the garden loggia of the Borsig private property in Alt -Moabit. Anecdotal scenes from the Borsig production, assembly and loading of a locomotive, and the description of a harvest festival with the family Borsig linked the major industrial plant with the Borsig family history. At the same time this work was an important contribution of the Berlin painting to early industry representation. Some panels are now in the possession of the Mark Brandenburg Museum in Berlin -Mitte and the German Museum of Technology.
More paintings by:
- Amsterdam Antiquary (1869 )
- Villa Borsig (1855, National Gallery, Berlin)
- Animal hut (1885, National Gallery, Berlin)
- The four seasons in the life of birds
- Cycle of 4 images in Kaseinmalerei
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Cinderella (1870 )
- The sheep shearing (1872 )
- The Wild Bude ( 1874)
- Charcoal kiln in the Bavarian Mountains ( 1878)
- Friedrich Eduard Meyer home ( portrait )
- Daniel Chodowiecke (1887, Portrait )
Lions, 1885
Locomotive from the cycle life of a locomotive, 1873-1876
Animal hut, 1885
In the animal hut, 1894
Student
Among the important students Meyer 's home offer are the Tierbildner August Gaul (1869-1921) and the sculptor and Tierbildner Friedrich Franz Brockmüller ( 1880-1958 ). A further student was the painter and graphic artist Paul Freytag ( 1873-1954 ).